Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Nepal to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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